Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

The House is passing significant legislation which will allow for a single procedure in this system so that the very complex and piecemeal way in which the legislation has been dealt with in the past will be replaced with the new legislation and there will be a single procedure for application and decision. One of the significant problems is the multiplicity of judicial review applications and these take up a lot of time. I agree we had to divert staff from other areas to look after this area. This case highlighted the deficiencies in the staffing levels and in the modus operandi.

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